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BRISTOL, CT -- The Women & Girls' Fund of Main Street Community Foundation is hosting a Lunch & Learn for local nonprofit professionals and volunteers to discuss the Fund’s grant process as well as the critical needs and issues local girls and women face. This luncheon will be held on Thursday, August 24, 2017 from 11 am – 1 pm at Tunxis@Bristol, which is located at 430 North Main Street in Bristol.
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WATERBURY, CT -- More than 420 students in Greater Waterbury and the Litchfield Hills will find their college educations more affordable thanks to scholarships awarded by Connecticut Community Foundation for the 2017-18 academic year. The awards totaled nearly $940,000.
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ORANGE, CT -- Avangrid, Inc. (NYSE: AGR) announced today that it is its consolidating administrative and executive functions at a facility that it owns in Orange, Connecticut.
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MIDDLETOWN, CT — Liberty Bank has donated a total of $28,000 to local agencies providing emergency or transitional housing for homeless families and individuals, and serving the communities of: Bristol, Middletown, New Britain, New Haven, New London, Norwich, Waterbury and Willimantic.
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HARTFORD, CT -- Moraima Gutierrez of Hartford has been named chair of the steering committee for the Latino Endowment Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, the community foundation serving the 29-town Greater Hartford region. She succeeds former Latino Endowment Fund steering committee chair Nelly Rojas Schwan who will continue serving as a member of the committee.
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TORRINGTON, CT -- The Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation and Danosky & Associates, LLC congratulates seven new graduates of the Leadership Enrichment for Advancing Professionals (LEAP) program.
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WALLINGFORD, CT -- Gaylord Hospital recently received a $75,000 grant from the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority to purchase the 15-passenger van. The van will be used for outings designed to help patients re-adjust to normal life.
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NEW YORK, NY -- The American Theatre Wing has announced new appointments to its Board of Trustees and Advisory Committee. Among those joining the Advisory Committee is Emily Tow Jackson, executive director of The Tow Foundation, and a past board member of the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy.
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TORRINGTON, CT -- Area students have been awarded $154,050 in scholarships and awards for the 2017-2018 academic year through funds held at the Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation.
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SPRINGFIELD, MA -- Asnuntuck Community College recently held a celebration after receiving a grant from the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (HFPG) to partially fund a full-time Success Coach to work with Supplemental Nutrition Employment and Training Program (SNAP) students. The event was held on their Enfield campus on Thursday, June 22 along with the Connecticut Department of Social Services.